cover art by Walter Baumhofer
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Hugh B. Cave, “Satan’s Mistress”
John H. Knox, “The Dead Demand Tribute”
Wyatt Blassingame, “They Thirst by Night”
Arthur J. Burks, “Women of Stone”
Chandler H. Whipple, “White Lady of Hell”
Ray Cummings, “Moonlight and Jungle”
Paul Ernst, “Her Spirit Lover”
cover art by Malvin Singer?
Leslie T. White, “Corpse Crazy” (Duke Martindel)
Raymond Chandler, “Mandarin’s Jade” (John Dalmas)
John K. Butler, “The Pied Piper of Frisco” (Rex Lonergan)
Hugh B. Cave, “Twenty After Murder” (Jitters Johnson)
Jan Dana, “Dead Failure”
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cover art by Walter M. Baumhofer
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Hugh B. Cave, “Dark Bondage”
H. M. Appel, “Harvest of Hate”
Arthur Leo Zagat, “Madman’s Bride”
Donald Barr Chidsey, “Death Walks in Paradise”
James Duncan, “Food for Coffins”
Mindret Lord, “Hostage to Pain”
Monroe Karasik, “Unholy Eyes”
(cover repurposed for April 1940 issue)
cover art by John Newton Howitt
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T.T. Flynn, “Easy to Kill” (Izzy O’Shea)
John Lawrence, “Call All Cars!” (Cass Blue)
Hugh B. Cave, “The Late Mr. Smythe” (Peter Kane)
Maxwell Hawkins, “Fair and Murder” (Jones & Jones)
Allan Vaughan Elston, “Star Witness”
Donald Barr Chidsey, “Dead Man’s Dinner” (Det. Colohan)
D.E. Winstead, “Heel Prints” (PI Tyson of Townsend Agency)
this is the first issue with 144 pages
cover art by Walter Baumhofer
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Hugh B. Cave, “Mistress of the Dead”
Arthur J. Burks, “Death-Nymph”
George Alden Edson, “Terror Rides the Subway”
Chandler H. Whipple, “The Last Harcourt”
Paul Ernst, “The Devil’s Doorstep”
Arthur Leo Zagat, “Death Lands a Cargo”
Richard G. Huzarski, “From What Black Pit—” (as by Richard C. Huzarski)
Maitland Scott, “True Strange Experiences: The Well of Horror”
cover by Tom Lovell
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Hugh B. Cave, “Death Holds for Ransom
Dale Clark, “My Friend—The Corpse”
Paul Ernst, “Embrace of the Fire God”
Roger Howard Norton, “The Woman Hell Gave Me”
Wyatt Blassingame, “Slaves of the Tomb Maidens”
Ben Judson, “The Beast in Her Bed!“
Emerson Graves, “Pale Daughters of Death”
cover art by Walter Baumhofer
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Frederick Nebel, “Murder by Mail” (Cardigan)
Hugh B. Cave, “The Lady Who Left Her Coffin” (Martin Lane)
William E. Barrett, “The Tattooed Circle” (Needle Mike)
Frederick C. Davis, “The Case of the Queen’s Headsman” (Carter Cole)
Robert Sidney Bowen, “The Corpse in Seat 2” (Kip Lacey)
“Murder by Mail” was reprinted in Hard-Boiled Dames (St. Martin’s, 1986) and The Complete Cases of Cardigan (Altus Press, 2011)
“The Lady Who Left Her Coffin” reprinted in The Mammoth Book of Pulp Action (Carroll & Graff, 2001)
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